{"id":2991,"date":"2025-08-25T08:52:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T06:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/?p=2991"},"modified":"2026-03-29T09:35:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:35:32","slug":"2025-2026-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/2025\/08\/25\/2025-2026-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"2025-2026 Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cities are Back in Town Seminar Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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FALL SEMESTER<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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11 September 2025- 5-7 pm (hybrid)<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laurence Rocher<\/strong>, Professeure des Universit\u00e9s, Universit\u00e9 Lyon 3  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Presentation “Circularit\u00e9s urbaines. Du gouvernement (extra)territorial des flux r\u00e9siduels”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discussant: Marta Tramezzani<\/strong>, PhD Candidate, CEE, Sciences Po<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2 October 2025 – 5-6:30 pm (online)<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ana Beraldo<\/strong> de Carvalho<\/strong>, Urban Studies Foundation International Fellow, Sciences Po<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Managing ordinary life: (Im)predictability, Violence and Solidarity in Latin American Urban Margins<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discussant: Patrick Le Gal\u00e8s<\/strong>, CNRS Research Professor, CEE, Sciences Po<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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16 October 2025 – 5:30-7 (online)<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maren M. Larsen<\/strong>, Senior Lecturer, University of Basel  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Presentation \u201cWorlding Home: An Urban Ethnography of Peacekeeping Camps in Goma, DRC\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discussant: Laurent Fourchard<\/strong>, Research Professor, CERI, Sciences Po<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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6 November 2025 – 5:30-7 pm (online)<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amani Hassani<\/strong>, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Brunel University London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigating Colourblind Societies: Racial Governance and Urban Erasure in Denmark\u2019s Ghetto Policies<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discussant: Tommaso Vitale<\/strong>, Full Professor of Sociology, CEE, Sciences Po<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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13 November 2025 – 5-7 pm (hybrid)<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cl\u00e9ment Barbier<\/strong>, Professor of Sociology, LARSH, Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Presentation: \u201cEn qu\u00eate d’attractivit\u00e9. Le renouvellement urbain par grand projet dans les m\u00e9tropoles de Lille et Hambourg\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discussant: C\u00e9line Gipoulon<\/strong>, Deputy Director, \u00c9cole du Renouvellement Urbain<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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4 December 2025 – 5-7 pm<\/em><\/em> (hybrid<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas Aguilera<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Deputy Director of ARENES, Sciences Po Rennes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Francesca Artioli<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Spatial Planning, Paris-Est Cr\u00e9teil University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claire Colomb<\/strong>, Professor of Land Economy, University of Cambridge<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Presentation: \u201cHousing Under Platform Capitalism\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discussant: Beatriz Botero Arcila, <\/strong>Assistant Professor of Law, Sciences Po Law School<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SPRING SEMESTER<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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5 February 2026 – 5-7 pm (hybrid)<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joanie Cayouette-Rembli\u00e8re<\/strong>, Sociologist, Researcher at INED, Head of the Housing, Spatial Inequalities, and Trajectories Unit (LIST)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The relational side of urban segregation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discussant: Audrey Chamboredon<\/strong>, PhD Candidate in Sociology, CRIS, Sciences Po<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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19 February 2025 – 10:30-12 am<\/strong> (online)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malini Sur<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mobilizing Air: Cycling, Environmental Crisis, and Post-Carbon Futures<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discussant: Roberto Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong>, Associate Professor, CEE, Sciences Po<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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12 March 2026 – 5-7 pm (hybrid) <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Margot Delon<\/strong>, Charg\u00e9e de recherche CNRS, Centre nantais de sociologie<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas Pfirsch<\/strong>, Universit\u00e9 des Hauts-de-France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dominique Rivi\u00e8re<\/strong>, Professeure au D\u00e9partement de G\u00e9ographie de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Paris Cit\u00e9  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pr\u00e9sentation de l\u2019ouvrage collectif \u201cLes m\u00e9tropoles d\u2019Europe du Sud \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9preuve des crises du XXIe si\u00e8cle\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discussant: Eric Verdeil<\/strong>, Professeur des Universit\u00e9s, CERI, Sciences Po<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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26 March 2026<\/em> – 5:30-7:00 pm (online)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephanie Ternullo<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suburban Blues: The Clash of Local and National Politics in America\u2019s Suburbs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discussant: Joel Ansah<\/strong>, PhD Candidate, CERI, Sciences Po<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2 April 2026 – 5-7 pm (hybrid) <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vicente Ugalde Salda\u00f1a<\/strong>, Professor, El Colegio de M\u00e9xico<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Courts mobilization and urban governance in Mexico City<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discussant: Carlo Colombo<\/strong>, Assistant Professor, Maastricht University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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9 April 2026 – 1-7 pm (hybrid) <\/em>Half Day<\/strong><\/em> Seminar<\/em><\/strong> | Seeing the local in the global and the global in the local<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maria Kaika<\/strong>, Professor in Urban, Regional and Environmental Planning, University of Amsterdam<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Presentation: “Class Meets Land. The Embodied History of Land Financialization<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Roundtable “Global Analysis of Microsociology” with Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 \u00c1lvarez Rivadulla, <\/strong>Associate Professor, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia ; Francesca Ferlicca<\/strong>, Postdoctoral Researcher, Urban School, Sciences Po\u00a0; Antoine Guironnet<\/strong>, Postdoctoral Researcher, CEE, Sciences Po ; and Ankit Sikarwar<\/strong>, Assistant Professor, CRIS, Sciences Po<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Christian Schmid<\/strong>, Professor of Sociology, Department of Architecture, ETH Z\u00fcrich<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Presentation: “Vocabularies for an Urbanising Planet: Theory Building through Comparison<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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30 April 2026 – 5:30-7:00 pm (online)<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Albertus<\/strong>, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Presentation: \u201cLand Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn\u2019t, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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